[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Alchemy and Iatrochemistry](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa) › [Metallurgical alchemy and transmutation into gold](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada) › [Rasādhyāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt) › 218\_256 # Rasadhyaya 218\_256 English (machine translation) 218\_256 - **Language:** English ### [218\_256](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.218_256) Here, first, having made a leaf from a faultless sheet of pure lead, having placed a mere rati of the penetrated mercury there, having melted the thin \[metal\] situated on the lead sheet and made an ingot-cone, one should melt that ingot-cone. 1.217-218:1 Then it becomes a powder. 1.217-218:2 Then, having melted all the previously mentioned metals such as lead and tin, measuring a thousand ratis, while the molten metal is still swirling, one should throw in a mere rati of the powder of the ingot-cone mercury. 1.217-218:3 Then the gold stuck at the bottom is to be taken. 1.217-218:4 This is mercury that projects a thousandfold. 1.217-218:5 Thus ends the seventeenth refinement process, projection, of penetrated mercury. 1.217-218:6 - [Previous: 218\_255](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.218_255) - [Next: 219](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.219) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.218_256](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.218_256) · Pramāṇa